Might as well go ahead and keep dangerously depleting ground-water reserves to grow almonds for almond milk... because "progress"...
We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
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Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#12Nice how the upper classes want the pleb to give up meet, but the discussion is kept away from air travel being terrible for the environment. Thanks, I'll have my daily 400g meat.
We must all do what we can. There isn’t time for petulance.
nope sorry. Decision is on another table. More like if we want to share our piece of Pie with China/India population. What do you think will happen if their income increases with 50%? Biological food? Gender Neutral clothing? No, just same way of consuming we did for the past 50 years. Each gram you are going to save is compensated by kilos that their side.
the only think we still can do is heavily putting tariffs on their services/good in order to increase our standards of living unless we want to come on equal par
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#13Instead of thousands of people saying 'over their dead bodies' or some such reply its best for governments to just tax it just like cigarettes.
Poor people aren't going to like that very much...
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#14I want a law forcing companies to allow employees to work from home. Much, much more savings than skipping meat.
I am assuming you don't run a company
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#15I want a law forcing companies to allow employees to work from home. Much, much more savings than skipping meat.
Actually, the article's point is that halting every combustion-engine automobile, boat, plane, and train forever would do less to combat global warming than a genocide of all cows and pigs.
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#16Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#17Eat as much meat as you want, just leave away what you are eating out of habit and not because you actually want. This will go a long way already. Since you are not cutting down the meat which you actually want to eat, it does not feel like a sacrifice.
Works well for me.
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#18The article was a bit light on hard values, does anyone have good sources? Googling, main pages which come up seem to indicate the impact is only ~15% of total GHG emissions [1][2]. This doesn't seem like much overall for sweeping lifestyle changes, are these values wrong or am I missing something here?
Granted [1] isn't a great source, but hard to find.
[1] https://www.meatinstitute.org/index.php?ht=d/sp/i/47385/pid/...
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#19Instead of thousands of people saying 'over their dead bodies' or some such reply its best for governments to just tax it just like cigarettes.
its best for governments to just
No.
Re: We must cut out meat and dairy before dinner to save the planet
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am assuming you don't run a company
No, but I produce twice more when I'm at home rather than in the office.
and what works for you should be forced into law, of course!
I dream of a world of less laws. A world where if a boss sees that an employee performs better at home, he can let them. And where he can also choose not to.